So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[haddie moonfall]

I agree, Data himself seemed kind of forgotten in this Data-centric trilogy.

Jean Lorrah had a good handle on Data; I really enjoyed both Survivors and Metamorphosis.

Great! I'll check both of them out! Cheers!

*(One of my favorite novels is A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson)

 

[youngtrek]

Books read (entirely or just finished reading) in February, six of them:

Music For Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring (Jon Burlingame, 2023)

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios (Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards, 2023)

Doomsday Clock: Part 1 and Doomsday Clock: Part 2 (Geoff Johns, art by Gary Frank, hardcovers, 2019 and 2020, reprinting Doomsday Clock #1-12 (January 2018 to February 2020))

Before Watchmen: Nite-Owl/Dr. Manhattan (J. Michael Straczynski, art by Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Bill Sienkiewicz, Adam Hughes, Eduardo Risso, hardcover, 2013, reprinting Before Watchmen: Nite-Owl #1-4 (August 2012 to February 2013), Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1-4 (October 2012 to April 2013), and Before Watchmen: Moloch #1-2 (January 2013 to February 2013))

Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre (Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Connor, art also by Cooke and Palmer, softcover, 2014, reprinting Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-6 (August 2012 to March 2013) and Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1-4 (August 2012 to January 2012))

I was hoping to be done with the Star Trek novel that I’m currently reading, The High Country, in February, too, but I couldn’t quite get there (I’m at 80% done). I’m also still making my way through my various 1941-1942 Superman comic books and newspaper comic strips collected editions, some of which I’ll finish in March.

GoodReads 2024 Reading Challenge Goal: 50 books
Read so far (as of the end of February): 10 books (2 ahead of schedule)

— David Young

 

[Kertrats47]

The latest episode of the Positively Trek Book Club podcast is out, in which Bruce and I discuss the first seven stories of the short story collection Star Trek Explorer Presents: "The Mission" and Other Stories. Some cool things in these stories, including Pulaski experiencing life as an android and my favourite, "Paghabi" with some cool Guinan stuff. We'll be doing the other seven in a future episode.

Has anyone else been reading this collection? Or reading the short fiction in the Star Trek Explorer magazine generally?


Positively Trek Book Club: Did Anyone Else Have Android Pulaski on Their Bingo Card?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Finished Second Chronicles and the apocryphal Prayer of Manasses this morning. Also finally read the "Christmas book" (i.e., a miniature hardbound volume, printed by letterpress on handmade paper and hand-bound; one of my fellow docents at the Museum does one every year as a Christmas present for his graphic-arts-literate friends) of Andersen's The Little Match Girl. Not nearly as depressing a story as its reputation had led me to believe.

Ezra is next (and I'm definitely not talking about Mr. Pound). And if I can get a full day ahead of my quota, there's always David Mack's Firewall.

 

[Greg Cox]

The latest episode of the Positively Trek Book Club podcast is out, in which Bruce and I discuss the first seven stories of the short story collection Star Trek Explorer Presents: "The Mission" and Other Stories. Some cool things in these stories, including Pulaski experiencing life as an android and my favourite, "Paghabi" with some cool Guinan stuff. We'll be doing the other seven in a future episode.

Has anyone else been reading this collection? Or reading the short fiction in the Star Trek Explorer magazine generally?


Positively Trek Book Club: Did Anyone Else Have Android Pulaski on Their Bingo Card?

I'll cop to putting "Android Pulaski" on the Bingo Card.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It's fairly obvious to want to confront a character with a situation that forces them into their "worst nightmare" - something that plays upon their already stated dislikes/awkwardnesses.

 

[Greg Cox]

It's fairly obvious to want to confront a character with a situation that forces them into their "worst nightmare" - something that plays upon their already stated dislikes/awkwardnesses.

Exactly. Pulaski's aversion to androids is one of her defining character traits, and the thing that fans seem to most remember about her, so it seemed logical to lean into that when Titan asked me for a Pulaski story.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Like McCoy, whose aversion to Spock's Vulcan logic is legendary, winding up as Spock's katra carrier. Gives a whole new meaning to "internal conflict".

 

[Reanok]

The Jane Austen Project by Kathryn A Flynn

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Just finished Ezra, Nehemia, Tobit, and Judith, and I have the Post-It Notes in place to integrate the canonical and apocryphal parts of Esther.

 

[Christopher]

Just finished Ezra, Nehemia, Tobit, and Judith, and I have the Post-It Notes in place to integrate the canonical and apocryphal parts of Esther.

Aaaah, not another canon debate!!!

 

[youngtrek]

Just finished Star Trek: Strange New World—The High Country by John Jackson Miller. (I’m off now to find the appropriate posts thread to say more about that.

David Young

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Aaaah, not another canon debate!!!

I added the apocrypha supplement a few years ago to add difficulty. Lenten disciplines aren't supposed to be easy.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

When Hattie Finds Love by Amy Lillard. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123286821-when-hattie-finds-love

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Almost done with First Maccabees. Note that while the Chanukah Story comes from Maccabees, the Miracle of the Oil does not.

Next is Job.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Almost done with First Maccabees. Note that while the Chanukah Story comes from Maccabees, the Miracle of the Oil does not.

Next is Job.

Your order puzzles me. Doesn't Job come chronologically before the two Maccabees?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Actually, the Books of the Bible are not in an overall chronological sequence. For example, First and Second Chronicles span a time frame from Adam through the Babylonian Captivity, yet they are placed after First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings, and before Ezra, by all Christian denominations, and at the very end by the Jews. And likewise, Jeremiah and Lamentations are concurrent with Ezra and Nehemiah, yet placed after Isaiah (which is itself concurrent with Second Kings).

My insertion-into-context of the Apocryphal books is a somewhat idiosyncratic compromise between Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant/Anglican sequences. To wit (with Apocryphal books italicized):

The Torah:

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy​

The Books of History:

Joshua
Judges
Ruth
First and Second Samuel
First and Second Kings
First and Second Chronicles
Prayer of Manasses
Ezra
Nehemiah
Tobit
Judith
Esther (with apocryphal parts inserted in context)
First Maccabees​

The Books of Wisdom and Poetry:

Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus​

The Major Prophets:

Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lampentations
Baruch
Ezekiel
Daniel (with apocryphal Susannah, Song of the Three Holy Children, and Bel and the Dragon inserted in context)​

The Minor Prophets:

Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi​

The Appendix:

First Esdras (more-or-less redundant alternate version of Ezra and Nehemiah)
Second Esdras (apocalyptic and surreal)
Second Maccabees (alternate version of First Maccabees)​

The New Testament:

The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Gospel According to St. Mark
The Gospel According to St. Luke
The Gospel According to St. John
The Acts of the Apostles
Epistle to the Romans
First Epistle to the Corinthians
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Epistle to the Galatians
Epistle to the Ephesians
Epistle to the Philippians
Epistle to the Colossians
First Epistle to the Thessalonians
Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
First Epistle to Timothy
Second Epistle to Timothy
Epistle to Titus
Epistle to Philemon
Epistle to the Hebrews
General Epistle of James
First General Epistle of Peter
Second General Epistle of Peter
First General Epistle of John
Second General Epistle of John
Third General Epistle of John
General Epistle of Jude
The Revelation of St. John the Divine​

 

[Reanok]

The Lottery winner by Carol Higgins Clark.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Lottery winner by Carol Higgins Clark.

I don't suppose it's about Mrs. Hutchinson? (Of course, she celebrated her win by going out and getting stoned.)

But to get back on-topic, Psalms. I'm currently one day ahead of quota, so I actually had time to watch PIC: "No Win Scenario" last night.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

My insertion-into-context of the Apocryphal books is a somewhat idiosyncratic compromise between Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant/Anglican sequences.

Ah, okay. You're grouping books thematically. Got it.

Recently I was pondering the possibility of reading the New Testament in order of composition, so some of the Pauline epistles first, then Mark, then more epistles (some by Paul, some ostensibly by Paul, some not by Paul at all), more gospels and Acts, eventually ending with, I think, Revelation, though I think at least one of the Peters may have been composed later. The idea would, I think, trace the development of thought and theology in the first century CE.